European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 6, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday april 6r 1992 the stars and stripes b Page 5wal-Mart Pioneer Walton Dies at 74 Little Rock Ark. A Sam Walton the business Pioneer who built Wal Mart into the nations largest retail Chain through High tech management and exacting customer service died sunday a spokeswoman said. He was 74. Walton underwent treatment for leukaemia in the Early 1980s and was diagnosed with Bone cancer in 1990. Jane Arend a Wal Mart spokeswoman did not disclose the cause of death. He died at the University of Arkansas medical sciences Hospital where he had been staying for More than a week Wal Mart officials said. Although known As a shrewd businessman Walton was better known As an innovator and a cheerleader who sold his employees on his philosophy of efficiency and serv Walton ice to the customer. That philosophy enabled Wal Mart which began with a single store in Rogers Ark., in 1962, to ring up $43.89 billion in 1991 sales. Early in that year Wal Mart dethroned Sears Roebuck and co. As the nations largest retailer. In the stars and stripes it also made Samuel Moore Walton one of the richest people in the United states. In october 1991, Forbes Magazine ranked him and his four children As third through seventh on its list of the wealthiest americans giving the family members a net Worth of $4.4 billion each. Walton a pioneering business methods also earned him the presidential medal of Freedom the nations highest civilian Honor last month. Walton was born March 29, 1918, in Kingfisher okla. He attended the University of Missouri receiving a bachelors degree in economics in 1940. He went to work As a management trainee at . Penney co. And then served in the army from 1942 to 1945. After the War Walton and his brother . Went into business together opening a Walton a 5 amp 10 and becoming franchisees for 15 Ben Franklin variety stores. In 1962, Sam Walton opened the first Wal Mart discount City store. By 1969, there were 18 stores but the company began to grow explosively in the 1980s, sometimes adding hundreds of new stores every year most of them in Small towns. By the end of 1989, there were 1,367 Wal marts. A year later that number had surged to 1,537, and As of March 31,1992, there were 1,735. The arrival of a Wal Mart was enough to bring customers from Miles away. The stores reputation for Low prices and Good service stole business from rival retailers a including Sears and Kmart. The company surpassed $1 billion in annual sales in 1979, reached $11.9 billion in 1986 and jumped to $43.89 billion just five years later. Those totals included same a wholesale clubs warehouse stores and hyper Mart Usa stores a combination discount store Ana supermarket As Well As the Wal marts. Walton a stores were Able to undercut their competitors because of the company a High tech distribution system including bar code scanners to track inventory As Well As ring up a customers purchases. Customer service became part of a Wal Mart employees Job description. Walton understanding that Good morale spurs productivity sought to involve Wal Mart staff in running the business. Store managers were encouraged to come up with their own marketing schemes and bonuses and a Stock Purchase plan were instituted. He was known for making Surprise visits to stores leading employees and customers in a cheer of a give me a a give me an a a a your philosophy is that management a role is simply to get the right people in the right places to do a Job i then to encourage them to use the a Ness to accomplish the task at hand a go _. _. D then to encourage them to use their own inventive. Walton said in a 1983 interview Quot. When he was diagnosed in 1990 with multiple Miclo a form of Bone cancer he sent a memo to All the a company a stores saying he did not want employees a he called them a a associates a to hear it from someone else.10 years ago april 6,1982 a the aircraft carriers invincible and Hermes headed for the occupied Falkland islands spearheading the mightiest Armada Britain had sent onto the High seas since the Suez crisis of 1956.20 years ago april 6,1972 the North vietnamese broadened their seventh offensive threatening the provincial capital of Quang Tri in the North and opening a new front 60 to 75 Miles North of Saigon with infantry assaults led by tanks.30 years ago april 6,1962 a president Kennedy proposed a tax on pleasure boats and other new Revenue measures to finance the Purchase of land and water areas for Public recreation and the creation of a land conservation fund to Quot expand existing recreational resources to meet our present and future needs.�?�40 years ago april 6,1952 a the United nations said there was increasing evidence that epidemics sweeping China had claimed 50,000 lives and stricken As Many 400,000 people. World War 50 years ago today 6 april19 �4 2 r the . And philippine defenders of the Bataan Peninsula launch fruitless counterattacks against the japanese and Are forced to Retreat again. A Small japanese naval Force in the Bay of Bengal Hunts Down freighters that fled Ceylon and causes extensive shipping losses. Japanese troops land on Bougainville in the Solomons increasing the threat to Australia. Class action suit by alleged victims seeks $3 million against Uncle de Philadelphia up a lawyer has filed a $3 million class action lawsuit against Edward a Uncle eds Savitz an aids infected Man accused of having sexual relations with teen age males. Philadelphia attorney Val Pleet Wilson accuses Savitz with negligence for not telling his two clients and an undetermined number of others that he had aids. Savitz was found last june to have the disease. Wilson said there could be hundreds of boys and Young men who need aids testing and counselling because of their Contact with Savitz. The plaintiffs were identified in court papers tiled Friday As John Doe 1 and John Doe 2. Both Are 18. They Are not related. The two allegedly visited Savitz at least 50 times in the last two years. A Many of these sexual contacts happened when they were 16 and 17 years old a Wilson said. Lawyer Barnaby Wittel who is defending Savitz could not be reached for comment saturday. Wilson said the Contact with Savitz Savitz was of a High risk nature. A it certainly was activity that could result in their contracting the aids virus a he said. Experts say unprotected sex Between homosexual males is a High risk activity. Savitz a downtown Philadelphia actuary is charged with multiple counts of involuntary deviate sexual Intercourse sexual abuse of children indecent assault corrupting the morals of a minor and promoting prostitution. Wittel has said Savitz is innocent of any crime. Savitz is being held in lieu of $20 million bail although another bail reduction hearing is scheduled this week. Doctors say Savitz will die within six to 18 months. Savitz 50, waived a preliminary hearing wednesday and will be arraigned april 22. Pair probed in poker party deaths Memphis Tenn. A two men who said they left a Cabin poker party before a fire that killed six players were charged saturday with robbing a card game in Mississippi last month. Investigators looked for any connection Between the incidents. A a we re still following lots of leads a said John mehr a Tennessee Bureau of investigation agent. A a it a going to take a lot of time. Nothing happens  Dennis Harris and Jamie Adams were charged with six counts each of armed robbery at a Cabin card game near Senatobia in Northern Mississippi authorities said. Three masked men armed with shotguns robbed five players there. Tate county miss., authorities issued arrest warrants for Harris and Adams after a search Friday of Harris Home in Bolivar mehr said. The two men jailed in Memphis said they were at a clubhouse in Bolivar during the High stakes card game the night of March 30, but left before the clubhouse burned. The remains of six people were found the next Day. Harris and Adams contacted authorities when they heard about the fire said a lawyer for the pair Jim Sanderson. A a they be tried to be As obliging As they can As cooperative As they can a another lawyer for the pair Steve Hale said. No one has been charged in the Tennessee fire which authorities believe was set to cover up a robbery. Chicago suburbs skunked by smelly visitors source 2194 Days of War w. H Smith a publishers inc. World almanac Book of world War ii Bison books corp .1981 Lincolnwood 111. Up skunks Are stinking up the suburbs of Chicago. Officials in Lincolnwood and Skokie said Friday that they Are desperately searching for a Way to rid the area of the critters. Residents say the done to care whether the towns hire a commando animal Warden or the teenage mutant ninja turtles a they just want the problem solved. Patty Anderson said she thought the animals were cute at first but after a polecat lunged at her and her Puppy one afternoon she changed her mind. A i was never so Shook up in my life a she said. Naturalist Garon Fyffe said the prob Lem is rampant throughout northeastern Illinois. Some 2,535 skunks were trapped in an eight county area last year compared with 1,737 in 1990. Of the 1991 total As Many As 300 were caught in Skokie and 64 were caught in Lincolnwood. Serious problems also have been reported in Northbrook West Chicago Elmhurst and Matteson. Lawns Are the attraction. A in a More Urban setting like the suburbs where you have a Good mixture of nature and people you have lots of food a said Bob Bluett the states nuisance wildlife management coordinator. A a it a a lot easier for the skunks to dig up grubs and other insects in the soft freshly watered lawns of the suburbs than in some hard packed ground in a Rural  the problem Isnit just a nuisance Bluett said. Its a health threat. Skunks can carry rabies. A skunks live on an epidemic Cycle that runs about six to 10 years a he said. A was the population builds the Chance for the spread of rabies goes  Northbrook animal control Warden Garry Nanes said that when he goes to a Home to Deal with a Skunk he does no to want help from the residents. A one time i had a Homeowner. Try to help me by throwing rocks at the Skunk to get it out from his window Well a Nanes said. A Well that Skunk just let Loose and sprayed everything. Naturally we both needed showers Long ones a